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title: Herbal and homeopathic remedies do not have to pass the same tests a… — At the pharmacy · tree and pragmatics
description: Herbal and homeopathic remedies do not have to pass the same tests as medicines, and homeopathic remedies are diluted (watered down) so much that essentially nothing of the starting substance is left. Who acts: Herbal remedies. A sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mov
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# At the pharmacy, sentence 12

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Herbal and homeopathic remedies do not have to pass the same tests as medicines, and homeopathic remedies are diluted (watered down) so much that essentially nothing of the starting substance is left.

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**Who acts:** Herbal remedies · **What happens:** not have, pass, dilute, water down, leave · **To what, where:** same tests, homeopathic remedies, nothing

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This is a sentence of the lesson «At the pharmacy» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herbal remedies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:020-at-the-pharmacy.lesson:12
# text = Herbal and homeopathic remedies do not have to pass the same tests as medicines, and homeopathic remedies are diluted (watered down) so much that essentially nothing of the starting substance is left.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 020-at-the-pharmacy.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Herbal	herbal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	homeopathic	homeopathic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	remedies	remedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	homeopathic	homeopathic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	remedies	remedy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	diluted	dilute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
22	watered	water	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
28	essentially	essentially	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	starting	starting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | Herbal remedies |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Herbal remedies *not said here* | the same tests |  |  |  | as medicines | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent test=Duration as medicine=Attribute |
| 3 | **dilute** | present · passive |  | homeopathic remedies |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **water down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leave** | present · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:medicine:020-at-the-pharmacy.lesson:12`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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